Gideon Mitchell

YouTube video by Just a Confused Brit British Reporter DISMANTLES Trump Bootlicker With ONE Simple Question!

Where is free speech more under threat, in the UK or the US? Looks pretty clear to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiWV...

YouTube video by AJ+ The West Said “Never Again.” It Lied.

Here is a considered comparison by Tony Karan, a Jewish journalist, between the dehumanisation of the Jews by the Nazis and the dehumanisation of the people of Gaza by the Israelis. The parallels are real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5y0...

The US is starting to look like Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge also recruited teenage soldiers.

P.S. 'Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it', George Bernard Shaw.

With the Pledge of Allegiance, the US public doesn't see any reason to look outside the USA to see whether there might be better ways to do things and, believe me America, there are.

the US media might have a less cosy relationship with the politicians they interview and actually hold them to account in interviews without fear that the interviewee will refuse to return, they will lose ratings and advertising revenue, and that their bosses will fire them.

Without the Pledge of Allegiance the US might even have a democratic system in which the party that is not in power (what is called 'the opposition' in other countries) is organised and challenges the party in power with coherent alternatives. Finally, without the Pledge of Allegiance,

I believe that without the Pledge of Allegiance the US might have decent, good-value healthcare, like other developed nations. Without the Pledge of Allegiance the US probably wouldn't have its unique and appalling gun problem.

Get the kids to stand and do a symbolic gesture: stand erect with their hand on their heart, facing the flag. Then recite some words about your country's superiority and repeat as often as possible before school.

It would look like the Pledge of Allegiance.

Start them at a young enough age that they won't question what you are asking them to do, say between five and seven. Use the powerful symbol of your country's flag as the centre of the ritual.

US citizens on here, I have a question for you. Does the Pledge of Allegiance make America stronger or weaker?

If you were asked to create a powerful ritual that would indoctrinate children into unquestioning belief that their country is the best in the world, what would it look like?

People who say 'Haitch' for 'aitch'.

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart Mehdi Hasan on the Media, Democrats & The Crisis In Gaza | The Weekly Show

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YouTube video by chillial Harry Enfield - Mr Cholmondley-Warner on Life in 1990

'It is I, Mr Cholmondley-Warner'. The point, if this isn't clear, is that language changes and relying on what it says in the dictionary, or on the once-great Fowler's Modern English Usage, is likely to make our writing seem as dated as this Harry Enfield sketch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gou1...

YouTube video by chillial Harry Enfield - Mr Cholmondley-Warner on Life in 1990

I teach a course for Learning Tree about Technical Writing. There is an section about using 'correct' grammar. When you knock on someone's door and they ask 'Who is it', should you reply 'It's me' or 'It is I'? I always illustrate the point by putting on a 1950's accent:

Palestinian children in the hospitals are labelled WCNSF, which stands for 'Wounded Child No Surviving Family'.

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Trauma surgeon: what I witnessed in Gaza and why we need action now

If you won't trust the Palestinians themselves, then trust the foreign medics in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0M...

ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers

YouTube video by Middle East Eye UK surgeon counters GHF denials of aid site shootings

One clear case of war crimes by the IDF in Gaza that is emerging is of the deliberate shooting of civilians by the drone pilots. We often hear about people being 'shot by drones' but remember that there is a pilot flying it and pressing the trigger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCu...

Nigel Farage urges minister to apologise for Jimmy Savile online safety claim Minister Peter Kyle claims that by opposing online safety laws the Reform UK leader is siding with sex offenders.

It's not hard to imagine a pantless Farage spending his lonely evenings slavering over hardcore content. But why would he want it to be freely available to children? I think the minister was spot on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries.'

What do you think? Is this extermination of the people of Gaza planned and deliberate?

[i.e., you don't warn the civilian population]. Period.'
- Bezalel Smotrich, 6 May 2025: 'Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from

We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly'.
- Omer Tishler, 11 October 2023: 'Our airstrikes are very broad, but [sic] not surgical. In all of these areas of terror there's substance…. Where there is an enemy and where you want to kill an enemy—you don't do a ‘tap on the roof’

killed by the IDF as by the Bosnian Serbs in Srebrenica.

Is this action planned and deliberate?
- Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023: 'We are imposing a complete siege on the city of Gaza. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed.

In the current Gaza conflict roughly 60,000 Gazans have been killed by the IDF, 70% of which have been women and children, i.e. about 42,000 women and children killed by the IDF. That is over five times as many civilians (just counting the women and children)

Srebrenica seems a good baseline to take when analysing what is happening in Gaza.

Srebrenica was a planned and deliberate massacre of over 8,000 unarmed Bosniak men and boys, with the explicit goal of ethnic cleansing, carried out by Bosnian Serb forces under Ratko Mladić.

Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

A food distribution centre in Gaza is not a safe place to be, intentionally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

YouTube video by Glenn Greenwald Israel-Made Famine Crisis Finally Recognized

Gaza is suffering a man-made famine, a famine made by Netanyahu and his government. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoC...

UN human rights chief criticises 'disturbing' Palestine Action ban Volker Turk urges the UK government to lift the

Whose bright idea was it to proscribe Palestine Action anyway? When the UK Labour Government is struggling to retain its reputation for competence, this was an act of self-sabotage that could so easily have been avoided. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YouTube video by The Bulwark Tim & JVL React: Mehdi Hasan vs. 20 Far-Right Idiots

Oh America! Would you prefer Christo-fascism or white nationalist fascism? www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8iK...